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The final Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery workshop on Saturday 26th April 2025

Photo of a woman pouring an oil into a bowl containing a pale coloured mixture of lentil pancake batter. Also on the table is an induction hob, various ingredients, containers and cutting boards.
A previous Cheap & Easy Cookery Workshop at the Central Methodist Church in Todmorden

All are invited to attend our last of five Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery Workshops (details below). Once again, we’ll be showing how to make several low-cost, healthy & easy-to-make plant-based dishes that minimise the food’s contribution to climate change… and maximise kindness. Free samples of the food prepared in the workshop will be offered to workshop participants along with recipes for each dish.

Saturday 26th April, Cheap & Easy workshop during Cornholme Community Day …

A poster giving the full programme for the Cornholme Community Day including the Cheap & Easy cookery workshop and free lunch. Timing in text below the image.

Our Cheap & Easy workshop will be held in Cornholme Old Library, I Parkside Road, Cornholme, OL14 8QA between 13:00 and 15:00 as part of the Cornholme Community Day. Between 12:00 and 13:00, we’ll also be providing some free mixed bean chilli lunches.  

As you can see from the poster above, there’s a lot going on during the Community Day and it’s all free. Come and have fun whilst learning new skills.

All Cheap & Easy workshops have been supported by Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee

Help! We need some bodies.

Image showing hands raised an the word "Volunteer"

Yes yours please! We really need helpers for the Cornholme Cheap & Easy workshop on 26th April and/or the lunch we’ll be serving. If you can spare any time to help between 11:00 and 15:00, please email info@3valleyvegns.org.uk. We would really appreciate it…and you’ll get fed too.

Volunteer image by 🆓 Use at your Ease 👌🏼 from Pixabay

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Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery Workshops March & April 2025

Green & black sketch of a person stir-frying vegetables in a wok. There are 3 bottles on the adjacent work surface & implements hanging on a rack behind.

We’ve got two more of our free, and popular, Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery workshops coming up. 

In them, we’ll be showing you how to make a number of low-cost, healthy & easy-to-make plant-based dishes that minimise the food’s contribution to climate change… and maximise kindness. You’ll be able to sample everything prepared and take away recipes for each dish. The next workshop is very soon…

Monday 31st March, Central Methodist Church, Todmorden

On Monday 31st March, we’ll be holding a Cheap & Easy workshop at Todmorden’s Central Methodist Church, Union Street, OL14 5AW. Together, we’ll prepare different dishes to those at our last workshop there.

Doors will open at 7.00 pm so you can browse stalls, be entertained with music and enjoy hot drinks. The cookery will start at 7.30pm, and the event closes at 9pm.

Because the event is being made possible with the support of Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee, all dishes will be cooked using lower energy appliances such as induction hobs, microwaves and air-fryers, and ingredients will be as low carbon as possible. 

Saturday, 26th April 2025, Old Library, Cornholme

This Cheap & Easy workshop will be held during the daytime as part of a Community event being organised by Todmorden Town Council to support local people in growing their own food.  We will be providing some free lunches for Cornholme residents as well as free samples of the food prepared in the workshop taking place before lunch.

Precise times for this workshop will be communicated in our next email newsletter (sign up for the newsletter here if not already subscribed) but it will be sometime in the morning and lunch will stretch into early afternoon.

Both workshops supported by Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee

Help! We need some bodies

Yes yours please!  We really need helpers for our Cheap & Easy workshops, especially the one at Cornholme where we will also be catering for lunch on 26th April.  If you can spare some time to help for all or part of the time, please email info@3valleyvegns.org.uk.  We would really appreciate it…and you’ll probably get fed too.  

A big thank you

A big thank you to the kind people who made donations to our crowdfunding appeal for match funding of our Cheap & Easy workshops.  The fundraising page has now closed.

Animal Sanctuary, Blog, featured

Full of Joy Animal Sanctuary damaged by Storm Éowyn

Full of Joy Animal Sanctuary is the local sanctuary founded by TJ & Liz and run on vegan principles. It was hit badly by Storm Éowyn on 25th January with all its stables, outbuildings and stores totally ruined. Estimates of the cost of rebuilding are at least £15,000.

The sanctuary is run on a not-for-profit basis entirely by the founders and a small number of volunteers. They re-home abused and neglected animals such as ponies, pigs, geese, chickens sheep, cats, and more.

The animals are safe after the storm but they now have no permanent home and are in very temporary accommodation. To help rebuild it, please donate to the sanctuary’s fundraiser via the button below. Without your support it’s unlikely the sanctuary will survive.

Please donate to the Fundraiser here
Photograph of wrecked accommodation with broken timbers collapsed into the building

Also needed: building materials and helpers to reconstruct the accommodation.

Full of Joy founders on the Time is Sliding podcast

Recorded a few days before Storm Éowyn wreaked havoc, Liz & TJ talked about the challenges the sanctuary faces and changes in society that would improve the lives of non-human animals. The episode can be listened to via Apple Podcasts, Spotify & other podcast platforms…or via the player below